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Can we stop banning mundo, kench, and jax now?

hgjkdlsaf jeldvb·3/1/2016, 1:43:42 AM·8 votes·1,059 views

They are not problems anymore. Yes, they're annoying. Yes, they're a problem if fed.

Right now they're banned 75% of the time with about a 50% and 46% win rate respectively.

http://champion.gg/champion/DrMundo http://champion.gg/champion/TahmKench http://www.lolking.net/charts?region=na&type=bans&range=monthly&map=sr&queue=1x1&league=ranked

There's a lot of champs that should be banned, and we do not have enough bans to waste them on shit like that.

We could be banning Lux, or shyv, or janna, all of which are actually winning games, and are played all the time. You could even ban nautilus, who just popped up and is suddenly a terror in top lane. None of these champs even have good way to beat them. The one common thing they all have is a hilarious lack of counters or they just don't care about their "counters". This means you don't beat them by playing better than them, you beat them by banning them. Please, people, be smart about your bans.

Counterpick mundo. Trundle wrecks him. There's a whole list of champs that beat him. Same with jax, who has bad matchups against half of all top laners. Even tahm kench is beaten by many champs in every role he's played in. Draft smart. You'll win more.

Edit: ban API be damned, I still see mundo and kench banned most games and jax banned quite often. I'm totally willing to counterpick them and make them useless, personally. I'd rather counter a mundo than let an udyr on the enemy team. Downvotes? Really? I'm just trying to inform people to ban shit that is actually hard to deal with.

15 Comments

Slythion3/1/2016, 1:57:35 AM2 votes

Yo man, chill out. You're obviously a bit...disgruntled about this :3 Jax is banned for his monstrous split pushing potential in the jungle, and there isn't a lot of ways to stop it. Mundo isn't that good anymore, I agree with you on that. Tahm is banned for his easy saves and incredible peel potential. Don't underestimate him.

While there are other more useful bans, Jax and Tahm are still decent and you are exaggerating it a bit. I actually haven't seen a Mundo or Tahm banned in awhile though so maybe you're just having tough luck. Either way, there's no need to be so emotional about it, just ask your teammates to ban ONE champion, any more makes you seem like a pushy jerk.

viken3/1/2016, 1:46:49 AM1 votes

Something's wrong with Riot's API so ban rate statistics aren't up to date and/or they're not there. Besides, why do you care what other people ban?

XIII Vanitas3/1/2016, 6:41:00 PM1 votes

I'll never stop banning TahmKench. He's the embodyment of tilt. He tilts me with his disgusting emote (I hate those vomit sounds). He tilts me when he's in my team and he W me in the middle of a teamfight instead of using his ability on the enemy. He tilts me when he's in my team and he activates the second cast of his ult instead of waiting for me, even though I was almost there. He tilts me when he's in the enemy team and he saves his carries like he's supposed to. He tilts me when he's in the enemy team and he keeps cc-locking me with his infinite combo (aa, Q, aa, W, aa, Q, aa, W, ... ) till the end of my fucking hp bar.

Honestly, fuck Tahm Kench.

DeathBurst3/1/2016, 6:53:11 PM1 votes

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They are not problems anymore. Yes, they're annoying. Yes, they're a problem if fed.

I agree with that assessment.

There's a lot of champs that should be banned, and we do not have enough bans to waste them on shit like that.

Hum, I don't think so... Only Udyr, and even that I'm not sure, looks like he's still really OP. So banning "simply annoying champs" is a valid decision, as far as I'm concerned... Lux, Shyv, Janna are annoying, but just like Tahm or Jax. None of them are really OP, I think.